Zimbabwe lays down new rules for NGOs ; Farm Evictions

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Zimbabwe: Farms and NGO's

The Zimbabwean government has published tight new regulations for the registration of NGOs after a Cabinet minister said they had been deregistered, reports said on Saturday. Meanwhile, more than 220 of Zimbabwe's remaining white farmers have been given until September to get off their properties.
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Critics blame the seven-year-old land reform programme for slashing agricultural production and precipitating Zimbabwe's economic meltdown. But the government blames drought and what it terms economic sanctions by some Western powers.
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African dream world. ;)
 
They learnt nothing

I wonder what the average life expectancy is in Zimbabwe nowadays?

Without proper commercial farming activities people are going to starve.
The current generation in Zimbabwe don't know how to live off the land like their forefathers. That you can blame on the white man for teaching them European Culture and modern farming methods.

One of our distant relatives trekked to Rhodesia by Ox Wagon as one of the early pioneers to start with nothing but the ability to farm.
One can marvel at the courage of those people and I often try to think to myself what it would have been like to travel by Ox Wagon with no roads, perhaps a track here and there and then find a suitable place to build an abode to live in, hopefully near arable land that could be suitable to plant something in.
Money would have probably meant nothing except within the cities in South Africa. People would have needed farming tools to plough the land and this would have to have been brought by Ox Wagon. A trip like that could have spanned several weeks or months. Imagine all the issues one would have with no latrines along the way, no motels or One Stops.
Despite all those obstacles they managed to make Rhodesia into something.
Now they are shown the door by those same people that were running around not 100 years ago in animal skins.

Now there are roads into Zimbabwe, running water and electricity yet the so called "war veterans" haven't a clue what to do with their new found freedom from white man's oppression.
They basically learnt nothing in the last 100 years.
 
Calling people with relatives in Zim

Can anyone please get the current public retail prices for the following goodies in Zimbabwe? I would like to put that 2200% inflation into perspective...

1) A loaf of bread
2) A litre of milk
3) A litre of petrol

Thanks in anticipation...
 
PiesangTee said:
Can anyone please get the current public retail prices for the following goodies in Zimbabwe? I would like to put that 2200% inflation into perspective...

1) A loaf of bread
2) A litre of milk
3) A litre of petrol

Thanks in anticipation...
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Economics are based on the principle of demand and supply, in Zimbabwe there is a huge demand and no supply.

If a person had excess of a product to sell, he would trade for something, anything but currency. Imagine your bank account is worthless and only your physical processions carry value. The R6000 PC you bought can be traded for a loaf of bread worth R5 in South-Africa, because food is worth more than a PC. That is a ratio of 1200:1. Imagine it being worse.

Wikipedia should have an interesting article on hyperinflation but I'm capped so I can't look at it.
 
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PiesangTee said:
Can anyone please get the current public retail prices for the following goodies in Zimbabwe? I would like to put that 2200% inflation into perspective...

1) A loaf of bread
2) A litre of milk
3) A litre of petrol

Thanks in anticipation...
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it means if a loaf of bread cost R2 today by the end of the year it would cost +/-R2200.00. That is of course if the inflation doesnt go up which i think it will.

Just last year Nov their inflation was bordering on 1000%
 
It means if a loaf of bread cost R2 today by the end of the year it would cost +/-R2200.00. That is of course if the inflation doesnt go up which i think it will.

Just last year Nov their inflation was bordering on 1000%
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As far as i've read, with inflation that high the impact is felt much faster on the floor. I.e. bread is R2 today, tomorrow it will be R3.50 . I believe they don't even put prices on products anymore because the price fluctuate daily. It's like playing the stock market with milk and bread [will i buy "stock" now, or tomorrow ? ]
 
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http://www.fin24.co.za/articles/default/display_article.aspx?Nav=ns&ArticleID=1518-25_2106289

Harare - Zimbabwe announced new controls on Saturday to clamp down on charities and other humanitarian organisations, including democracy and human rights groups that the government accuses of campaigning against it.

Under a new code, voluntary organisations need a state license, which can be denied, thus barring them from operating. UN agencies are not affected.

The code, issued in an official government notice available on Saturday, follows recent warnings from several senior officials against charities engaging in political advocacy. They said some groups came to Zimbabwe with food aid in one hand and a "regime-change agenda" in the other.

President Robert Mugabe has frequently accused the UK, the EU and the US of funding charities to work alongside his opponents in a Western-sponsored campaign to oust him.

Western governments have imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe to protest Mugabe's human rights record. Investment and foreign loans have dried up in six years of political and economic turmoil following the often-violent seizures of thousands of white-owned farms that began in 2000.

According to the new code, existing charities already registered by law with the government would not have their licenses automatically revoked by the notice, as had been feared. But their activities could be reviewed.

MoA withgovernment

The code requires foreign organisations setting up in Zimbabwe to sign a memorandum of understanding with government departments working in their social or welfare fields.

It also requires them to provide accounts of their funding and a clearance letter from the International Police Organisation and other details on their history and background.

Human rights and pro-democracy pressure groups routinely assist victims of state-orchestrated political violence with food, shelter, medical assistance and trauma counselling.

The new code would bring them under state control for the first time, analysts said.

The Lawyers for Human Rights group, who provide free legal aid to victims and help channel food and medicine to jailed opposition activists, would also likely be targeted.

Most of those organisations currently operate under regulations covering private trusts.

Tough media laws

Under similar media licensing laws enforced since 2003, four independent newspapers, including the only independent daily, have been shut down, and scores of independent journalists have been arrested, intimidated and assaulted.

Most foreign journalists are denied visas to travel to Zimbabwe on assignment under media and immigration laws.

Zimbabwe is suffering its worst economic crisis since independence in 1980, with acute shortages of food, hard currency, gasoline, medicines and most other basic goods. Official inflation is running at about 2 200% annually, the highest in the world.

Central bank governor Gideon Gono said on Friday the government used scarce hard currency to buy about 500 000 tons of staple food - mostly corn - to avert starvation in coming months.

Critics accuse the government itself of using food as a political weapon, especially surrounding elections, charges Mugabe denies.
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In oder to start a revolution a non profit organization should instead just pull out of the country, Mugabe can then try subdue a few million hungry people with nothing to lose.
 
halicon said:
it means if a loaf of bread cost R2 today by the end of the year it would cost +/-R2200.00. That is of course if the inflation doesnt go up which i think it will.

Just last year Nov their inflation was bordering on 1000%
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bread = 2$ US
http://www.zimbabweshopping.com/catalog-list.cfm?Cat_Display=17&storeid=1&cat_id=1&startrows=1

milk = 2.80$ US
http://www.zimbabweshopping.com/catalog-list.cfm?Cat_Display=53&storeid=1&cat_id=1&startrows=1

does anybody knows exchange rate? must be over 15000Z$ to 1 USD?
 
raoul said:
bread = 2$ US
http://www.zimbabweshopping.com/catalog-list.cfm?Cat_Display=17&storeid=1&cat_id=1&startrows=1

milk = 2.80$ US
http://www.zimbabweshopping.com/catalog-list.cfm?Cat_Display=53&storeid=1&cat_id=1&startrows=1

does anybody knows exchange rate? must be over 15000Z$ to 1 USD?
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I have 2 $100 000 notes.

LMAO. It's was about R2 sometime last year for both. I quick approximate calculation gives you 750 000 Z$ for one 1 US$. I won't be surprised if it's way beyond 1 million Z$ : 1US$ by now.
 
$2 for a loaf of bread! That's high in dollars, let alone Zim dollars. Poor country has to deal with that maniac in Harare.
 
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